These objectives have been achieved across six investment themes: financial services, climate change, food, healthcare, housing and education.

MainStreet Partners aligned its investments to 14 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Three new professionals joined the team to strengthen fund selection, fundamental investment analysis and marketing activities

London, 8th June 2018 – MainStreet Partners, a specialist sustainable and impact investment firm established in 2008 which offers bespoke portfolio solutions within the sustainable investments market and the impact investing market, announces the publication of its 2017 Impact Report. The Report highlights the social and environmental results achieved by MainStreet Partners through the investments executed with its clients and classified according to six investment themes: financial services, climate change, food, healthcare, housing and education. MainStreet Partners’ environmental and social results contribute to the achievement of 14 SDGs.

MainStreet Partners’ assets under advisement increased 57% year on year, reaching EUR 342 million, thanks also to a supportive market environment characterized by a growing demand for sustainable investments. This figure demonstrates the growth of MainStreet Partners’ activities and represents a further sign of confidence from MainStreet Partners’ clients to create and launch new products and investment services with clear financial, social and environmental goals.

In 2017, MainStreet Partners’ investments achieved the following results:

54,000 loans to micro entrepreneurs;

More than 69,000 tons of CO2emissions reduced;

More than 85 million organic meals provided;

More than 106,000 high risk patients treated;

130 social housing units built;

184 low-income students

MainStreet Partners’ mission is to provide investors with transparent access to direct and indirect financial instruments which deliver financial returns while improving people’s lives and protecting the environment. “It is essential for us to give investors full visibility regarding the social and environmental results generated by our asset under advisement – explains Rodolfo Fracassi, co-founder and Managing Director of MainStreet Partners. For this reason, we calculated the results generated for each EUR 1 million invested”. For every EUR 1 million equally allocated across MainStreet Partners’ assets, investors achieve the following results: 209 loans to micro entrepreneurs, 292 tons of CO2 emissions reduced, 8,701 organic meals provided, 325 high risk patients treated, 2 social housing units built and 5 low-income students enrolled.

Among the impact investments executed in 2017:

Cassa Depositi e Prestiti, social bond: issued in November 2017, the bond will finance more than 11,000 small and medium-sized businesses located in economically underperforming regions and regions affected by natural disasters;

Fondo Mivivienda, thematic bond: created in 1999, Fondo Mivivienda has facilitated access to housing to more than 80,000 Peruvian families through the issuance of multiple bonds;

Novo Nordisk, listed equity: the company is the leader in the production, distribution, research and development of innovative biological medicines to fight diabetes and other chronic diseases, making these treatments accessible to patients everywhere in the world;

PureCircle, listed equity: founded in 2002, the company is the leading producer of stevia, a natural low-calorie sweetener which has eliminated 1.3 trillion calories from global diets.

Further information on MainStreet Partners’ Impact Report 2017 and details on the methodology developed to measure the company’s results are available on MainStreet Partners’ website.

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About MainStreet Partners

MainStreet Partners is a specialist sustainable and impact investment firm which offers bespoke portfolio solutions to clients wishing to deploy capital at scale in sustainable and impact investments across asset classes and geographies, either in thematic equities and bonds or via third party funds. Applying the highest standards of financial and extra-financial due diligence, our mission and duty is to achieve positive risk-adjusted returns while delivering tangible positive social and environmental impact. MainStreet Partners has been developing its capabilities and track record of investing in companies and funds since 2008.